On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:26:07PM -0700, William Stuart wrote: > Markus Wernig wrote: >> Hi >> >> Are you sure that all the interfaces you have configured carp on have >> link and can connect to each other? (I've seen similar behaviour >> caused by defective NICs: receive buffer not receiving while send >> buffer still sending - try ping on all interfaces) Is lo up? Is there >> any other router on the same network segment that propagates the same >> VHID with a better metric (i suppose that a VRRP router on the same >> net could cause trouble if it uses the same VHIDs). >> >> no answers, just questions, I know ... >> >> hth /markus > Don't mind the questions! Just hoping someone will ask one where I say, > "I am such an IDIOT! Why didn't I think of that!" > > Yes, it had link (I was ssh'ing to the configured interface). They can > connect to each other (I would assume if they couldn't see each other I > would have a MASTER/MASTER issue and not a BACKUP/BACKUP issue), I ended > up halting one of them to see if I can get just one to go MASTER when it > was alone, no dice. I did a tcpdump and did not see any other VRRP > traffic.
Is there any chance another CARP segment has recently been added to the same switch / stack? I've seen CARP vhid's "leak" through to other broadcast domains on some Avaya switches. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/